The University of Iowa College of Engineering Solar Power Car Club will be exhibiting at the UI School of Art and Art History's ArtsFest 2014 from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 2, at Studio Arts, 1375 Highway 1 in Iowa City.

The University of Iowa Opera Theatre will present "Die Fledermaus" by Johann Strauss II Friday-Sunday, May 2-4, in the Englert Theatre in downtown Iowa City. The performances, conducted by William LaRue Jones and featuring stage direction by Bill Theisen, will be at 8 p.m. May 2 and 3 and at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 4.

Undergraduate dance majors in the University of Iowa Department of Dance will present their choreography to the public in the Undergraduate Concert at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, May 8-10, in Space Place Theatre, 101 North Hall, on the UI campus.

The University of Iowa’s Hancher and Department of Religious Studies are collaborating to present Niyaz featuring Azam Ali on Thursday, May 8, at 7:30 p.m. at Old Brick. The concert is free and open to the public.

A UI biology professor will discuss what she has learned from studying snails in a free public lecture, “Sex in Nature (And Especially in New Zealand),” which will be presented at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 8, in the Biosphere Discovery Hub at the UI Museum of Natural History.

Henry B. Tippie, one of the University of Iowa's most accomplished and generous alumni, will visit campus to deliver the Phil's Day keynote, "Life with Phil," Thursday, May 1, at 1:30 p.m. in the second floor ballroom at the Iowa Memorial Union.

Phil's Day marks—literally—the impact of private gifts on University of Iowa facilities, programs, and people. This year's celebration takes place Thursday, May 1.

Are you a fan of the Lion King? Come learn how the real-life kings of the savanna grow up as the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History presents "African Cats" at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 4, in Macbride Auditorium.

University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Kate Christensen will read from her memoir, "Blue Plate Special," at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 7, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

Iowa City fifth graders are getting a view of the Earth they’ve likely never seen before thanks to a collaborative hands-on learning project with University of Iowa College of Education students and the School of the Wild.

University of Iowa students, faculty, staff, and alumni received some of the institution’s highest honors Thursday. April 24, at the 97th annual Finkbine Dinner for Representative Student Leaders.

Christopher Newfield, one of the country’s most energetic analysts of higher education funding, will present a public lecture Monday, April 28, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Iowa City Public Library. This event winds up the Obermann Center’s Designing the Future series while raising powerful questions about our own future.